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the Trieste's Record.

One correspondent, writing to the "Auckland Star," stated that the barque Trieste, Captain J. G. Clarke Rowland, made the passage from Sydney to Auckland in four days three hours, but the facts do not bear this out. I may mention in passing that many people have apparently confused the time taken "between land and land" with the time "port to port." the Trieste was purchased in Sydney by Messrs. Thornton, Smith, and Firth, millers, whose flour mill stood on the site now occupied by Smeetons, Ltd., Queen Street, Auckland. She left Sydney on May 13, 1866, at 6 p.m., and passed the Three Kings four days eight hours later. the Trieste experienced heavy westerly gales in the Tasman Sea, but after rounding the North Cape she met with light south and south-west winds down the coast, and anchored between North Head and Rangitoto on the morning of the 20th at 6 a.m. I boarded the barque an hour later. The actual time occupied by the Trieste from port to port was six days twelve hours. Captain Burgess, late mate of the Alice Cameron, was in command, not Captain Clarke Rowland, as stated by the writer, and Captain Sewell, late commander, came over as a passenger. Captain Clarke Rowland was later in command when the Trieste sailed from Auckland for San Francisco to load a cargo of wheat or flour for Messrs. Thornton, Smith and Firth.